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Antarctic Gateway Partnership

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Address: 20 Castray Esplanade 7004 Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: www.imas.utas.edu.au/antarctic-gateway-partnership

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25.01.2022 Congratulations to Antarctic Gateway Partnership PhD students Ole Richter, Madi Rosevear and Wilma Huneke on organising such a successful ocean modelling workshop.

23.01.2022 'Science in the Skies' public seminar recording now available here https://bit.ly/2E4cOAn

21.01.2022 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle nupiri muka arrives in Hobart for her mission of the South Coast of Tasmania. nupiri muka will complete launch and recovery trials from MV Ocean Dynasty ahead of the Antarctic field season Australian Maritime College Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - IMAS

21.01.2022 Can geoengineering help avert catastrophic climate change by removing carbon from the atmosphere? To keep global warming below the 1.5C goal set by the IPCC, 20... billion tonnes of CO2 would need to be removed from the atmosphere each year until 2100. IMAS University of Tasmania Professor Philip Boyd and UK researcher Dr Chris Vivian say urgent action is needed within three years as currently little is known about the potential consequences of marine geoengineering and scant research has been carried out that could inform policy decisions. https://bit.ly/2ZIhUdM https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01790-7

19.01.2022 Antarctic Gateway Partnership PhD Candidate Erica Spain is lead author on this paper documenting gas bubbles rising from the seafloor around Australia’s remote sub-Antarctic Heard and McDonald Islands.

18.01.2022 The University of Tasmania’s state-of-the-art AUV, nupiri muka, is helping to unlock the secrets of the Sørsdal ice shelf, close to Australia’s Davis research s...tation in East Antarctica. The first published results from the AUV’s voyage to the Sørsdal ice shelf in early 2019 suggest cold and saline water beneath the ice controls the weak melting observed from surface sensors. However, the research team, which included researchers from IMAS, the Australian Maritime College, ACE CRC, Antarctic Gateway Partnership and antarctica.gov.au, also discovered a 1200-metre deep seafloor trough running under the Sørsdal, which could allow warm water to enter and increase the rate of future melting if ocean conditions change. https://bit.ly/3d9nYm8 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015882

15.01.2022 Congratulations to Dr Alyce Hancock and Dr Wilma Huneke! Alyce and Wilma are the first students to graduate with a PhD under the Antarctic Gateway Partnership. A fantastic achievement by both!

15.01.2022 Antarctic Gateway Partnership Palaeoclimatologist Dr Tessa Vance is using a high-tech camera she describes as "a big expensive photocopier", to peer inside ice cores and reveal new clues about climate.

15.01.2022 TONIGHT IMAS Lecture Theatre, 5:30pm

14.01.2022 Innovative use of instruments that measure the ocean near Antarctica has helped research led by IMAS University of Tasmania and CSIRO scientists to get a cleare...r picture of how the ocean is melting the Antarctic ice sheet. Until now, most measurements in Antarctica were made during summer, leaving winter conditions, when the sea freezes over with ice, largely unknown. The study developed a novel mission that allowed year-round data to be collected near the Totten Glacier, revealing for the first time that deep water driving melting at the base of the glacier is warmer and in a thicker layer during winter and autumn than during spring and summer. https://bit.ly/2vUCICa https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014634

14.01.2022 Theme 3 Leader Associate Professor Jo Whittaker is Chief Scientist on the month long voyage to the Coral Sea aboard RV Investigator

13.01.2022 Whale spotting in downtown Hobart from the IMAS University of Tasmania balcony - where else in the world could you do that?! Our scientists say it's a Southern right whale about 6-metres in length #whalespotting #Tasmania

12.01.2022 Antarctic Gateway PhD candidate Kimberlee Baldry has been awarded a SCAR fellowship. Congratulations Kimberlee!

08.01.2022 Losing Ice Losing Coasts, 28 May, 5:30pm Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - IMAS

08.01.2022 Bedrock buried under kilometres of ice in a remote part of Antarctica has revealed some of its secrets for the first time in a new study by scientists from IMAS... University of Tasmania and Macquarie University. Wilkes Land in East Antarctica remains one of the last geological exploration frontiers on Earth, yet bedrock in the region is important as it underlies some of East Antarctica’s most vulnerable ice sheets. https://bit.ly/2LIL0Xw https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-46612-y

06.01.2022 A Season at the Sørsdal seminar is back...and this time it's in Launceston, home of our AUV nupiri muka. Join us on 19 June, 5:30pm at the Rory Spence Lecture Theatre Inveresk campus

05.01.2022 Losing Ice Losing Coasts, Tuesday 28 May 5:30pm Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - IMAS

05.01.2022 Congratulations to the Antarctic Gateway AUV team on a successful mission to the Thwaites Glacier!

05.01.2022 IMAS University of Tasmania Antarctic Gateway Partnership and antarctica.gov.au researchers are contributing to a multinational effort to improve models of ocea...n-driven ice sheet melting. Computer models that calculate how global sea levels will rise in the future are limited by not including how the Antarctic ice sheet is melting. A new study led by Dr David Gwyther shows how particular configuration options in these models play a role in changing the results, and the researchers hope this will enable future computer models to be more accurate in how they solve for melting around the fringe of Antarctica. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2020.101569

04.01.2022 TONIGHT 5:30pm Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - IMAS